{"product_id":"tales-speeches-essays-and-sketches-isbn-9780140434170","title":"Tales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches","description":"These short fiction and prose pieces display the variety of Twain's imaginative invention, his diverse talents, and his extraordinary emotional range. Twain was a master of virtually every prose genre; in fables and stories, speeches and essays, he skilfully adapted, extended or satirized literary conventions, guided only by his unruly imagination. From the comic wit that sparkles in maxims from 'Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar,' to the parodic perfection of 'An Awful - Terrible Medieval Romance,' to the satirical delights of The Innocents Abroad and Roughing It; from the warm nostalgia of 'Early Days' to the bitter, brooding tone of 'The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg' to the anti-imperial vehemence of 'To the Person Sitting in the Darkness' and the poignant grief expressed in 'Death of Jean', Twain emerges in this volume in many guises, all touched by genius.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.Tales, Speeches, Essays, And Sketches\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eSuggestions For Further Reading\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Note On The Texts\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTales, Speeches, Essays, And Sketches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLetter from Carson City \u003c\/i\u003e(1863)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashoe.—\"Information Wanted\" \u003c\/i\u003e(1864)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Smiley and His Jumping Frog \u003c\/i\u003e(1865)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Christmas Fireside: The Story of the Bad Little Boy That Bore a Charmed Life \u003c\/i\u003e(1865)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBarnum's First Speech in Congress \u003c\/i\u003e(1867)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCannibalism in the Cars \u003c\/i\u003e(1868)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Awful—Terrible Medieval Romance \u003c\/i\u003e(1870)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Tomb of Adam from \u003c\/i\u003eThe Innocents Abroad (1869)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStory of the Good Little Boy Who Did Not Prosper \u003c\/i\u003e(1870)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMap of Paris \u003c\/i\u003e(1870)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBuck Fanshawe's Funeral from \u003c\/i\u003eRoughing It (1872)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Story of the Old Ram from \u003c\/i\u003eRoughing It (1872)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife as I Find It \u003c\/i\u003e(1873)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSociable Jimmy \u003c\/i\u003e(1874)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA True Story, Repeated Word for Word as I Heard It \u003c\/i\u003e(1874)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Encounter with an Interviewer \u003c\/i\u003e(1874)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003eOld Times on the Mississippi (1875)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Boys' Ambition\u003cbr\u003eI Want to Be a Cub-Pilot\u003cbr\u003ePerplexing Lessons\u003cbr\u003eContinued Perplexities\u003cbr\u003eThe Facts Concerning the Recent Carnival of Crime in Connecticut \u003c\/i\u003e(1876)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e[Date, 1601] Conversation,  as It Was by the Social Fireside, in the Time of the Tudors \u003c\/i\u003e(1876)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhittier Birthday Speech \u003c\/i\u003e(1877)\u003cbr\u003eA Presidential Candidate (1879)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Babies, As They Comfort Us in Our Sorrows, Let Us Not Forget Them in Our Festivities \u003c\/i\u003e(1879)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cat Tale \u003c\/i\u003e(ca. 1880)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJim Baker's Blue Jay Yarn from \u003c\/i\u003eA Tramp Abroad (1880)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Private History of a Campaign That Failed \u003c\/i\u003e(1885)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrivate History of the \"Jumping Frog\" Story \u003c\/i\u003e(1894)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar from \u003c\/i\u003ePudd'nhead Wilson (1894)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar from \u003c\/i\u003eFollowing the Equator (1897)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg \u003c\/i\u003e(1899)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy First Lie and How I Got Out of It \u003c\/i\u003e(1899)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTo the Person Sitting in Darkness \u003c\/i\u003e(1901)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCorn-Pone Opinions \u003c\/i\u003e(1901)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Dog's Tale \u003c\/i\u003e(1903)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEve Speaks \u003c\/i\u003e(ca. 1905)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeventieth Birthday Speech \u003c\/i\u003e(1905)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEarly Days \u003c\/i\u003e(1907)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLittle Bessie \u003c\/i\u003e(ca. 1908-09)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"The Turning Point of My Life\" \u003c\/i\u003e(1910)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Death of Jean \u003c\/i\u003e(1911)\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn Writing And Writers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReply to the Editor of \"The Art of Authorship\" \u003c\/i\u003e(1890)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Paul Bourget Thinks of Us \u003c\/i\u003e(1895)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFenimore Cooper's Literary Offences \u003c\/i\u003e(1895)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Tell a Story \u003c\/i\u003e(1895)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam Dean Howells \u003c\/i\u003e(1906)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Literary Shipyard \u003c\/i\u003e(1922)\u003c\/p\u003eMark Twain was born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri, in 1835, and died at Redding, Connecticut in 1910. In his person and in his pursuits he was a man of extraordinary contrasts. Although he left school at twelve when his father died, he was eventually awarded honorary degrees from Yale University, the University of Missouri, and Oxford University. His career encompassed such varied occupations as printer, Mississippi riverboat pilot, journalist, travel writer, and publisher. He made fortunes from his writing but toward the end of his life he had to resort to lecture tours to pay his debts. He was hot-tempered, profane, and sentimental\u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003eand also pessimistic, cynical, and tortured by self-doubt. His nostalgia helped produce some of his best books. He lives in American letters as a great artist, the writer whom William Dean Howells called “the Lincoln of our literature.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTom Quirk is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Professor of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. He is the editor of the Penguin Classics editions of Mark Twain's \u003cb\u003eTales, Speeches, Essays, and Sketches\u003c\/b\u003e (1994) and Ambrose Bierce's \u003cb\u003eTales of Soldiers and Civilians and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e (2000) and co-editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Portable American Realism Reader\u003c\/b\u003e (1997). His other books include \u003cb\u003eComing to Grips with Huckleberry Finn\u003c\/b\u003e (1993), \u003cb\u003eMark Twain: A Study of the Short Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e (1997) and \u003cb\u003eNothing Abstract: Investigations in the American Literary Imagination\u003c\/b\u003e (2001).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300675408101,"sku":"NP9780140434170","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140434170.jpg?v=1767737759","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/tales-speeches-essays-and-sketches-isbn-9780140434170","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}